Founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo, ByteDance is the Chinese technology company behind TikTok, Douyin, and CapCut, and a major builder of generative AI.
Its generative media models on fal come from the ByteDance Seed research team, established in 2023 to push the boundaries of general intelligence across vision, language, and multimodal systems. Each family targets a distinct creative task, from image generation and editing to video and digital humans.
Available on fal:
- Seedream: unified text-to-image generation and editing in a single architecture, including Seedream 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0 Lite
- Seedance: text-, image-, and reference-to-video with synchronized audio, including the Seedance 2.0 family
- OmniHuman: audio and image driven human video animation with accurate lip sync, including OmniHuman 1.5
Together they cover image creation, cinematic video, and lifelike digital humans for creative and enterprise workflows.




























